Suw

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Writer, activist, owned by Grabbity & Copurrnicus. Join me over on Substack at suwca.substack.com where I talk about the art of not writing, and wordcounting.substack.com where share writing links and news.

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"No rolling blackouts or grid emergencies as California continues on path to a carbon free grid. Several strategies, including upgrades to vulnerable parts of the grid at play here, but key enabler is more clean energy, especially solar, and above all, battery storage..." 😀

California Grid Breezes Through Heat Wave due to Renewables, Batteriesthinc.blog No rolling blackouts or grid emergencies as California continues on path to a carbon free grid. Several strategies, including upgrades to vulnerable parts of the grid at play here, but key enabler …

Spent the morning filming at the Ri with the team from Orinoco Comms.

Going into London tomorrow to do some filming at the Ri (a promo for ALD) and then go to a tech conference. Feels rather like 2006.

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Oh hey, especially given the ‘This is a trigger for a while’ experience of this present time: Mute and or block anything you need to. A N Y T H I N G Your mental and emotional health is an unassailable fortress. Defend it with everything you have.

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Both funny *and* tragic (because this remains the “diversity” you can expect in the average geology department).

Daniel Craig playing an entire geology department himself:

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I saw this because @allochthonous.bsky.social shared it, and clicked on it because I thought, well, I could do with a bit of good news. But it kicks off in Boone County Family Restaurant, Poplar Grove, IL, literally 5mins from where my husband grew up. 😱😂

Wow: “If you grow an acre of corn, it will produce 900 gallons of ethanol, which will get you about 25,000 miles for a Ford F-150...which is, not bad I guess. But let’s say we put solar on that same acre. It will produce enough electricity every year to drive my Lightning 550,000 miles.”

Forty Acres and a Sense of Hopesubstack.com Sunshine on a Cloudy Week

This is a very good look at the way that the public, in general, dislikes AI and AI boosters, whilst tech folks are in love with it and think it's the future. I'm desperately hoping that the public wins through before AI-adoring devs do too much damage to the tools we all depend on.

The sentiment disconnect on 'AI' between tech and the public: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/sentiment-disconnect/

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I don’t know about anyone else, but “which of these guys would you prefer to have unfettered power, as just granted by our courts?” seems like fairly solid ground to fight the presidential election on.

It is now abundantly clear that the right-wing judiciary, from Aileen Cannon right up to John Roberts, wants to vest Trump with extraordinary powers to do whatever the hell he wants if he became president again.

There is a (fairly) faithful, full-size recreation of the Bayeux Tapestry on display at Reading Museum. Elizabeth Wardle gathered together a group of very skilled women together to create the replica, which was first exhibited in 1886. www.readingmuseum.org.uk/history-brit...

Today is the 80th anniversary of this New Yorker cover by Rea Irvin, portraying the D-Day invasion in the style of the Bayeux Tapestry. Bayeux was the first town to be liberated (although the tapestry was, to the surprise of many, not there anymore; that story is the subject of my next novel.) 1/5

The History of Britain's Bayeux Tapestry | Reading Museumwww.readingmuseum.org.uk The original Bayeux Tapestry The Bayeux Tapestry is preserved and displayed in Bayeux, in Normandy, France. Nothing is known for certain about the tapestry’s origins. The first written record of the B...

This is a nice bit of news: A new malaria vaccine is cheap and effective: www.ox.ac.uk/news/2023-10...

Oxford R21/Matrix-M™ malaria vaccine receives WHO recommendation forwww.ox.ac.uk The highly effective vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and the Serum Institute of India, leveraging Novavax’s adjuvant is critical to reducing over half a million malaria-related deaths

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On how Irish fans would be reacting if we'd done any of the things England have done during this Euros. 🇮🇪⚽🇮🇪

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universal basic income programs keep getting "tested" and are overwhelmingly found to benefit the lives of everyone involved. It should only take so many pilot programs before this becomes basic policy. www.businessinsider.com/new-york-bas...

Artists in New York got $1,000 monthly through a basic income program. One participant used the money to pay bills and afford healthcare.www.businessinsider.com Jacinta Bunnell, 52, received guaranteed basic income from Creatives Rebuild New York. The program gave 2,400 artists $1,000 a month for 18 months.

I think we should all feel proud of the male Lionesses tonight. It's not that long ago that reaching a final was pretty much inconceivable, so it's great to see the men finally catching up with the women.

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Way too much excitement this weekend, none of it the good sort.

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MABA: Make America Boring Again. Please.

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Football has gone to its second home in Spain and doesn’t understand why Brexit had made it harder

Omfg, are England trying to spike my blood pressure?

Football's sat on the Circle Line and can't decide where it wants to get off.

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Football’s coming home but is currently waiting for a replacement bus service

Anyone else look at Cucurella's hair and think, 'Mate, you really need to use the curly girl method, you have gorgeous curls.'? No? Just me then...

And this is why we need a liveable UBI.

And this has always been the case. So many of the "literary greats" of the last 200 years of commercial publishing were in dire financial straits much of their careers. The Paris scene popped because the city was cheap between the wars. The Algonquin Round Table was there because of cheap pierogies.

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Senate Dems should take one of their assorted gun control bills off the shelf, rename it something like "Trump Assassination Prevention Act," and force Rs to do a talking filibuster to block it

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It’s very normal and healthy to not have an opinion on everything.

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I stay in the same hotel a few times a month, I've got a spreadsheet of rooms I've stayed in previous and always request a different one. Just so I can switch off the stupid Smooth Motion settings on all of the TV's so people can watch things how they were intended to be viewed.

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Farage and Reform received 12% of TV and press coverage during the UK election, far more than the Lib Dems and Greens, according to a big study by Loughborough Uni’s Centre for Research in Communication and Culture.

Report 5: 30 May – 3 July 2024 | General Election 2024 | Loughborough Universitywww.lboro.ac.uk

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Good. Because anyone telling you that our broadcasters should ditch their out of date funding models and emulate the sexy 21st Century streaming platforms clearly hasn’t looked at how all those sexy 21st Century streaming platforms are getting on right now.

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French supermarkets now have to use their carparks for solar panel arrays. This means you get to park in the shade while you shop #AddedBonus #ClimateChange

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Mineral kebab. A tourmaline prism intersecting a piece of lepidolite, from Haddam Neck, Connecticut, USA #minerals #geology ⚒️🧪